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- The Open College Textbook Act of 2009
- ProfsWhat will the profs who force everyone to buy the latest edition of their own $125 textbook do now?Probably still the same thing.RE: The Open College Textbook Act of 2009You do know that this act will severely curtail the research that could lead to new curricula and textbooks?Why? It's because...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, textbook, Open College Textbook Act
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
- Facebook, Wrong Again!
- There was a book and movieabout assassinating Bushmaybe the secret service has a pointbut both sides of the aisle should have more respect for the presidency Come on....I don't care for the guy myself, but all you need is the results to be over 50% and some whack job will...
- Tags: Free-speech, Facebook, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Am I a big whiner about Gmail's downtime?
- I received a lot of feedback on my post from Tuesday, "Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down." Comments ranged from commiseration, to ridicule for buying into a cloud-based solution, to thoughtful musings on the nature of the cloud in education. by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Google Gmail, Downtime, Cloud, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Google vs. Bing: The global battle
- Huh, just 67.5%??I thought it would have been like 80-90% by now.Mr Dignan uses flawed statistics, the market is actually much more skewedAccording to Hitwise, who claims to have bigger and more unbiased samples, was Google's market share up at impressive 74%, i.e. ~14 times bigger than Bing, 4.5 times...
- Tags: Google Inc., Bing, global battle
- Discussion threads 2009-08-25
- Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains high
- Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains highGeneralizations are always bad ;)I see Secunia quoted as saying "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security ? it is only a question about time ? and luck ? when your system will be compromised."Yes, patching is...
- Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, Secunia PSI, Secunia, insecure program
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- ABC's Impact: Oh No, Not Again!
- ABC's Impact: Oh No, Not Again!Epic physics fail[i]First, never mind the fact that the immense mass of a Brown Dwarf is created by the fact that all the matter in it is caught in a huge gravitational field.[/i]That explains its [b]density[/b] not its mass.[i]If a ?fragment? of a Brown Dwarf...
- Tags: Again!, dwarf, Oh-No, ABC Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- So how 'bout them universities?
- So how 'bout them universities?I'll just reply here . . . Not being the social networking nut that most ZDNet authors are, I'll just reply here, thanks. Don't have twitter, not interested.But I am a student, so I've got a few things to say . . ."Enhancing communication and collaboration...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Literacy, Universities, computer science
- Discussion threads 2009-06-03
- So how 'bout them universities?
- By and large, this blog focuses on K-12 educational issues, mostly because I live, eat, and breath K-12 educational technology. While I may talk about broader issues in technology (social media, for example, or Google's latest and greatest), it's usually in the context of how they might impact students...
- Tags: K-12, Education, University, Social Media, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- The problem for open source textbooks
- The problem for open source textbooksinteresting one, here is an attempt...1) Find an author/publisher willing to open source an existing textbook as the 'seed' for each subject. The seed is very important.2) Have a wikipedia style site. Decide whether and how contributors and contributions will be managed. 3) Have periodic...
- Tags: open source, state?s children, textbook, open source textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- The fundamental value of Internet access
- The fundamental value of Internet accessFunny you should compare...the Internet to our road system. One is provided by greedy corporations while the other is provided by the government. Whopping difference.I've said it in the past and I'll say it again. Unless the government nationalizes the infrastructure, big business will choke...
- Tags: Government, Internet, fundamental right, Fundamental Rights, fundamental value, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist
- From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- How about textbooks by Google?
- If you read my post on the new Kindle DX yesterday, you know that I'm generally irritated with the entire idea of the Kindle at this point. I'd take fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow's, request for Amazon to "bring down its wall" a step further and suggest that the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Channel Management, Security, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- One of those days...
- It all began with a server migration last night...Most of you can probably fill in the blanks from there. Things of that nature are rarely as easy as they should be. Then, of course, there's this swine flu thing. Parents are worried, so we've put...
- Tags: Blogging, Christopher Dawson, H1N1 flu, Internet, Parents
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Blacklists vs. whitelists
- Blacklists vs. whitelistsCommercial Site VettingMy concern with a vendor offering to optimize content is where else are they looking to monetize the relationship, perhaps through back doors?Data mine and sell to marketing? Take money from commercial sites or trade associations such as the dairy councils to improve the findability of...
- Tags: K-12
- Discussion threads 2009-04-30
- How can Internet security be stepped up?
- The state of Internet security nowadays has reached its worst it has ever seen. With botnets attacking Mac's which was almost unheard of before last week and password thefts, eBay and Twitter scams to identity and data theft which breached the Pentagon. One of the main reasons...
- Tags: Password, Internet, Internet Security, P4ssw0rd, Biometrics, Authentication/Encryption, Security, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Earth Day: the most crucial issue
- Today at least one branch of the popular media tried to deal with the single most crucial issue affecting greentech, resources, the environment, the planet, your life and mine. POPULATION, as in how many people can this rock support? You can listen to the NPR show...
- Tags: Planet, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap Representative
- NSA targeted Americans' domestic calls, tried to wiretap RepresentativeGlad the wiretaps took placeWith the express purpose of preventing future terrorist activities, I'm glad the feds aggressively looked. With the current regime, I fear the future is going to be very different; an "enemy of the state" is now going...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Federal government, Big Government, domestic call, NSA
- Discussion threads 2009-04-20
- If a teacher had designed Twitter
- It would have looked like Edmodo. I just discovered Edmodo yesterday, somewhat ironically via Twitter. Like Twitter, it's a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions. Note to any student information systems vendors looking to build social media functionality into your...
- Tags: Twitter, Teacher, Edmodo, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Conficker hits US university; why it wouldn't happen in the UK
- Conficker hits US university; why it wouldn't happen in the UKHave your sayAre British universities immune from threats due to the nature of the infrastructure? Should there be more state control over how university networks are run? Is Conficker just a big hype about nothing? Have your say... prove me...
- Tags: SECURITY, Conficker
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
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